Tom plans to create a magazine cover, video game, or music album/CD cover for his final project. He enjoys designing ideas and the research/development process. He feels confident that he can create a high quality piece within the timeframe. His initial ideas include a magazine focused on music, a retro-style mobile video game, or a film promotion poster. He maps out more details for each idea, including related merchandise, advertising, and extras. His final mind map focuses on creating a magazine, music, and merchandise for a rap group called "The Overachievers." He analyzes repetition in magazine cover styles and how his mood board will influence his final product design while allowing for originality.

1. Initial Plans
Tom Batty

2. Initial Reaction
• My first initial thoughts of what I could make were a magazine cover for either a band
or hip hop artist. I thought of this because I have a strong passion for music and
listening to it. This means in my opinion I can produce a strong piece of work for my
final project of this year. Another passion of mine and a product I cold make is a video
game. The game I would make, could be more for a mobile device because I haven't
designed or even thought about creating a product like that. I thought of this idea
because I would say I have a very good general knowledge on the subject.
• I would say that I’m good at designing ideas and then finally creating what the product
would finally look like. I say I’m good at this because that’s the part I enjoy the most
throughout the production. Another thing I would say I'm good at is the research and
advancing my ideas further, shaping my product further to its best potential.
• My opinions on the project are that I'm happy that we get to specialise in what we
enjoy the most and get to create whatever we like. I feel that the time frame is enough
for me to create a very good piece of work that will get me the grade I want. I feel that if
I keep the same work ethic I have for the first months of the course then I will do well
and be happy with my work but stress it also a very big factor in effecting my work
ethic.

3. Mind Map Idea 1
Magazine
The topic would
music based
Merchandise
from the topic
More in depth
knowledge of
the topic
Website
Advertisement
Small/Big prizes
for fans
Idea 2
Video
game
CD/
Music
Posters
Radio
advertisement
Retro
style
Mobile
game
Computer
game
Pixel
based
First person
shooter
Puzzle
based
Console
based
Beta
preview
An advert
showing off
the game
DLC/micro
transactions
Enter
competitions
to try and win
the game with
a free console
BillboardsFestivals
Tour dates

4. Idea 3
Film
Promotion
poster
Movie
Trailer
Genre:
horror
Old school
style of
horror
Prizes:
movie
premier
Merchandise
relating to
the film
Certain camera
shots relating
to the genre
Create and edit
my own music
and sound
effects
Short film
Idea 4
CD
cover
Advertisement
TV, radio and
posters
Band or rap
group
Deluxe
Version
Track list
Lyrics

5. Final Mind MapMagazine
Advertisement
Radio
Posters
BillboardCD/Music
Rap Group
The
overachievers
3
members
Info on
them
Merchandise
T-shirts, hats
etc
Website
General news
on the Rap
world
More in depth
Information/ne
ws
Festivals
New music
Posters
Phone cases
Competitions
Prizes
Free tickets
VIP access to
important events
Tour dates
Double
page spread
Relating colour
scheme of the
front cover
relating
to the
main
artists and
genre
relating
to the
main
artists and
genre
Personal life
details
New
artist/songs
Relating to the
main artist
Voice only
Buses/bus
stops
Street
posters
Pop ups on
applications
Small play
of the music
as a pop up
on a
application
Shows and
festivals
relating to
the genre
and artist
Award ceremonies

8. Mood Board Analysis
Is there any repetition in the images you have collected? Repeated
colours/images styles/fonts/tone/mood
One thing I had noticed before doing this work is that the majority of all magazine covers, is
that they always have a big image of the main topic taking up the whole front cover. This has
been a very typical style of front covers for many years and does make a lot of sense to do it
this way because straight you get a face and a name of what content will be in the magazine.
Then again another recurring feature on magazine covers would be the cover lines places
around the main image on the front giving off information of what else the magazine
involves. Having cover lines stand out but still having the main image as the main attraction is
an important feature to have.
How will your mood board influence your final product?
I feel that m mood board will give me some good ideas on how to make and design a classic
style front cover. But again I want to have some old and new involved in my work because I
want to be able to create content that is relevant and different to other companies. By doing
this I can stand out more. I also added in some screenshots of websites also to remind me of
how the companies layout their information and present their work as an online web page. *